Re: initramfs-tools does not add dm-mod.ko to initrd for kernels 2.6.30-2-686 and kernels 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem
>> How can I work around this and what to do? My old kernel 2.6.26 works
>> fine.... How to force initrd to load the dm-mod and other
>> device-mapper kernel modules?
> I have added
> dm_mod
> dm_log
> dm_snapshot
> dm_mirror
> to
> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
> file and then
> did
> dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.30-2-686-bigmen
> and it regenerated the initrd.img file
> but then when I selected this kernel in grub2
> it still could not find the
> /dev/mapper/debian-root device.
> I was dumped by grub2 into Busybox
> (initramfs)
> and when I ran
> (initramfs) cat /proc/modules
> sure enough these modules were now in the kernel.
> However when I did ls /dev/mapper all I see is
> /dev/mapper/control
> and I cannot find the
> /dev/mapper/debian-root
> directory
> which exists when I boot into the vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 kernel.
> So why is grub2 failing to boot in the 2.6.30-2-686 kernel?
Grub2 is not responsible for finding your root in this case, it just
loads the initramfs and lets it find the root.
initramfs normally finds /dev/mapper/debian-root via
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/lvm2, so take a look
around there.
Stefan
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